Michael Irvin Reminisces + The Suey Nominees For Back In My Day | Hour 2

You are listening to The Down Laboratory Show in partnership with the DraftKin Sports Act, now live in all 50 states. (upbeat music) - I honestly cannot believe what I'm about to say, (laughs) which is for damn near 40 years, I am made happy when this person makes an appearance because of the enthusiasm that he brings to just about every exchange, almost 40 years since Michael Irvin was at the University of Miami and I'm gonna start with a difficult question for you, Michael, right off the bat and it's wonderful to see you, who do you care about more, you have to answer it? The Dallas Cowboys or the University of Miami Hurricanes? (laughs) How you doing, my brother? (laughs) How you gonna ask me something like that, do you, man? Hey, 'cause one may assess and say, "Wow, he's showing, he has the three things sitting right back but the reality indeed is all steps. That never happens if that never happens." You see what I'm saying? And so, it says, "The base is what matters most, really is the base is what matters most." If Jimmy had sent me home, the first day I got in a fight, you know, after you, I would be here. If he had sent me home, after I broke the line, I don't even say his name 'cause he's my great friend. After I broke the line, Joel, you know, with a never gotten here. So, you know what I mean, I just got to look at it like that. They tried to get me with that on the game, you know, some media, well, which city do you care about? The most, which team do you like the most? I said the team in the city, I want a championship being. Take that one. (laughs) I have a number of different questions to ask you about the University of Miami. So, give me some historical precedent. Has the University of Miami ever had a player like Malachite Tony? I'm not just talking about the electricity. I'm talking about Miami-born. You're about the closest thing to Howard. - No, no, no. And I'm talking shoulders down, shoulders up. I'm talking outside, inside, everything. I even said, man, I wished. And I don't know now the maturity that this is the kid shows. I don't, I can't call him a kid. This young man shows is insane. It's incredible. How focused he is, how smart he is, how talented he is, how diverse he is. And honestly, Dan, I've said this, he's the right person for this. You know, I'm joking with people, but I'm not joking when I say, "Oh, that's good." That's the day it's Mike Gorman, but he's right at handle it much better than the actual Mike Gorman. If you know what I mean, he's mature. He's just, he's perfect. And I mean, I mean, we're young men. Mark's letters like that too. I mean, we got great, great young men. And I was, I mean, Dan, we doing dirty. Our old history do these young men dirty. Because our history has a lot of dirty and if, but these young men, they deserve the best, man. And they got the great moms around them. So, yeah, we're blessed right now. This is a different Miami and a better Miami, it really is. This is where we said it knew you. This is a different brand. How did it come to be, Michael, and did you expect it to come to be that you would be on your hands and knees on the sideline of every university of Miami game and really rivaling the IBIS. And I offer you no insult when I say this. No other college program has a hall of famer as a mascot. (laughing) And Dan, only you could say that. Only you could say that, because of our history. And before I came on, man, I was talking about, you know, how long has been since I've been on with you. Think about it, Dan. We go back to when I was giving speeches to the team, going up in the Florida state, you know, I get people now on the sideline talking about this stuff. Like, man, we ain't like that. Like, dude, you don't know, you know, you'll see a Saturday afternoon, but they don't know the whole history and the connectivity and all that Miami has bumped to all of us and all, look, we lived our lives with this, Dan. You and I both, we know each other were great friends because we lived our lives with this right here. And, you know, and at my age, I get emotional talking about it, man. It means everything to me. It just means everything to me. I'll leave it at that. - Michael, this past season obviously didn't it? - In the half coach crystal ball. In the half coach crystal ball, you know, be the guy that does it. You know, when we brought him here, man, this is this is, if ever, if I'm on mine, if I'm coming into some landing one day, this is the kind of landing I want to come into. You know what I mean? Miami playing like this. Miami producing the young men that they are producing right now. Miami being coached by that coach, that guy that I really miss selling, you got to come to Miami as a kid coming out of high school. So, yeah, yeah, I did caught up in that. I'm an old man and this is, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna be on that side when I can like that. - Try again, Jason. - I'm sorry I interrupted you, Michael. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, you didn't interrupt, but I just, I just, I felt some more, but don't get on with that. You still buddy. - So last year didn't end the way the Cain's, Cain's fans wanted, but the journey, getting there, winning the playoff games, the way all of that felt. Like sometimes the journey is incredibly fulfilling. So, what was that journey like for you watching the team? - And that's why even now I'm more so, I'm so excited about what we have right now. And we all should man be able to just just receive it all. Let me tell you the importance of that journey. Ever step by the way, it was us against the world. Ever step by the way, nobody thought we were going in to win any game. Everybody thought, oh, remember what the whole was about to show you. And what does that do when you got all of this outside noise talking about you and not talking for you? It brought us right where they needed to bring us all together. And that's why you saw that run, you know what I mean? 'Cause we saw we were living in different forms for different reasons, the same thing we had to come through. You put a bunch of men together like that, a bunch of men together like we have. And you tell them, no, they can't, they're not this and the whole world is saying no, they can't, they're not this. And you see what kind of brotherhood comes out of that. That's what happened years, years ago. That's what I see happen just last, that last run. And that's why I think the world for helping us make it this way. Look at the, look at how we feel going into this season. Look at what these recruits and how's being recruited now. Every time I look up, they think, hey, hey, they flipping to Miami. I told somebody, we flipping more mugs than I hop. We flipping more pancakes than the Whitehall House. Are you joking? This is what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's right now. It's right to do. We dropped the show, Fetching Fletcher, Fletcher's about his mom driving across the country. We dropped that show Monday at noon. We got 75% wide team rate on TV. You know what's going on right now? Think about this. Mama Tony, I was just at her birthday party doing an issue, mom. Oh my god, dude, this young man came to the house. I meant when we were at Legend Camp, came upstairs and met all of us. Took our hands, made sure we knew what kind of young man he is. So, we got a hell of a group at Mama Fletcher driving across the country. We got to clean and watch this with all we got going on in this country between mothers and children. And I'll leave it at that because we're talking sports. But with all we got going on in this country between mothers and children, here is us showing our mother, Mother Fletcher, Mark Fletcher's mom, and the beauty of her. And I love her statement. Mom's going, she said to the long mile for their kid. Look at God and sit this thing up. We had all of this deportation stuff going on last year. People saying to me, oh my god, I'm going to get crazy. People saying to me, as we were deporting people, my people saying this was not our fight. Oh, this is not our fight, this is not our fight. I was like, what are you talking about? My loser king, our fight was one thing. It was to be judged by the country that my character, not the color of skin, or not any other reasons. when you watch this deportation. of course on. You got people that have been here 40, 50 years, that never broke the law, never did anything wrong. And you're going to come and scoop them up and just take them out and keep them out. And I had my people, some of my people said, "Oh, there's not a fight with you, joking. You've been here this long with your kids through school. You have showed me the content of your character." That guy was, "I don't need you to see a piece of paper." And for God, just so bless us with Mario Cristobal, a Cuban American coming out of all of that. You take my Amy to where they took them. I know you said, "Mike, what is this reality of it?" You got to see what God does right in front of you. Look at what we're going through now in this country with all stuff back and forth, tariffs and all that. I was so glad that God gave us the World Cup, to let the rest of the world come over here and see for themselves what we are, who we are, and make judgments on for yourself, dog from the politics. And every time I look at these matches that were incredible. I mean, everybody was coming together. He was incredible. It was insane. It was beautiful. It was beautiful. So it all works out, you know. And now Miami gets a chance. And, well, let me give you some. And now we're seeing what's going on. I'm gonna say the name with plaincy. And moms and their kids. And here come a story. Boom. God gives us where your single mom goes a long mouth like this Fletcher for her kid. Ain't God good. Did I just give a sermon on your show buddy? I'm sorry. You usually do. That's why we like having you around. I'm a Fletcher. We'll be on Cain's insight. Take over at one o'clock today on YouTube. Michael Irwin is going to be a part of, yes, sir. And there was a lot I went over there because I didn't talk to you in a while, but D, you know, and I know your dad and everything. And I know how you guys were affected with all of that man. And I love you. And I, you know, I just want to say that. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it. Down Levitar. The only is Captain Slubby. Jonathan Sasselow. Is this Chumbucket? This is the Down Levitar show. He's going to be a part of the first ever regular season game in Australia on Netflix, the Melbourne game. We'll talk to him about Rams and 49ers in a second. But when I ask you about how you felt, the details of how you reacted to losing to Indiana in the championship game, and where that ranks among the times that you have suffered a loss, take me through all of what it is. The end of last season was for you emotionally. Okay, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, all right, we've had to, because I really wanted to get that victory, you know, and, but I really did. And I thought that was incredible and such an incredible journey even getting it. You want that story told. I wanted that story told. We all did. We wanted that story told. Just like I told you, I look at it from a macro, not just a Michael of the game, but, you know, the Cuban American leading the scene to a championship. The only thing that gave me pieces was that he got beat by us. You've been in court, American quarterback. You see what I'm saying. I was like, okay, we got, okay, God gave me something on that, you know, but I was looking at it from that standpoint. But, but as, as this point is, I was that Miami did not win. We have to understand that, that that journey was such a huge victory. The way we're about the journey was such a huge victory because it brought us back to the family. We can't bring in teams in here. But since football is more than just a skill set, football is a combination of your skill, trust your will. So, so every time you get together, you got to have things that make you deepen your collective will. And that's what that journey did. So I can't, it deepened everybody that puts on that you on the side of the helmet. It deepens their collective will. Everybody, they got a chance to see people that like them by trying to keep them out of the pole, you know what I'm saying? So they got a chance to really see and feel, oh, it's really us against the world. Ruben Bain got a chance to see it because if he's putting it up on his arm, he's just like just got drafted. What are we talking about his arm? So, you know what I mean, it's a family. Look how tight we are. We're back together. Yes, I would disappoint it with the outcome. But I'm so back with the what we should call the cocoon. You know, start to say to this beautiful butterfly. That's very positive. That's more positive because I would have assumed it's emotional as you are that you would have been a special kind of crushed. I was crushed there. But I was crushed there. But that crushed now is crushed. But in sight, we're going into this season there. We're about to end this with with a championship in Vegas. Are you joking? My end of the day, it was going to be great. I got mine in Miami. I wanted my boys to have it. We lit up the city. We brought it to life. You know, but man, this next journey is all you got to focus on right now. I can't even go back to the pain of yesterday because I'm too excited about seriously about what we're going to start here in a few days in San Jose. Where are we in the NFL? Okay, the Rams are plus 500 to win the Super Bowl. Over the last 30 years, 20 teams have been plus 500 or better and none have won the Super Bowl. Your thoughts on what's going to happen with the Rams this year? And then one thing I will say to this because every time and you guys saw it in Miami, when the Braun and and Boston, all those guys came with the way. Well, you get this from its great talent together. It takes time to make it come together. They got to try to be certain and decipher who's going to be what and win and why. Now, this kind of great talent that they have with the Rams should have that issue because they are done with not something new. Miles Garrett was the new Aaron Donald is something returning. So the closeness and there's no no argument about who's what there. Aaron Donald's coming out of retirement. Miles Garrett broke the record last year. He's the apple. And now your number two is Aaron Donald. Get good single coverage. That's COVID scary. You know what to remind me of being and you're going to appreciate this. We talked about it at the Hall of Fame. It reminds me of the Rome Brown and Radio White. This is closest as you can get to what we are about to see. And I was on that team when they sat to a 11 times of the game. So yeah, it's going to be hard. It's going to be tough for anybody to mess with it. He's going to be. But I'm willing. I'm willing now. So we're down the road. George Picking just gave the cowboy something that they needed. You know what I mean by signing and taking their franchise head. And you've got a Tyler Smith assist. And this is football talking. I mean for a football talk. Tyler, the back, the best guard. One of the best guards in the NFL. If not the best guard in the NFL. I want to win him with Aaron Donald. And then I turned the rest of the focus. The miles get it. I think the cowboys can give him some run. I don't know how he turned the Rams question into the Cowboys answer featuring. He also turned into a game. The game in Melbourne is the Rams and the 49ers. It's Thursday, September 10th. He's going to be in Melbourne. Michael. It's always great to see and you don't be a stranger. Thank you, sir. That's why I'm here to see you more, Dan. I don't see anything. When I see when when my secretary sent me stuff, it says, Dan, that's all I get to talk the game again. I was like, Oh my god, man. Why don't I get to talk to you more, buddy? I'm going to reach out to you more this season. It's always nice seeing you 40 years, but it's a crazy amount of time. Thank you for thank you for what it is that you do for the show, what you do for for Miami. I appreciate it, but I love you, man. I like you guys. Likewise. See you later. Might be easiest answers. Here are Miami Hurricanes, pariah. Kane's insight has the studio for six hours today. Thank you for that. Where's the money? The money's around waiting for you to say his name. Look, and I'm so ready smiling. I would love for Dan to take the baton now and become what Michael Irvin is on on Kane's sidelines, like, you know, all fours. You guys damn going on the sideline for now. He's not welcome. You have to get it. No one cares more about the Miami Hurricanes than Michael Irvin, right? Maybe the money. What about Mike Ryan? Mike Ryan wants the studio for 12 hours today. I've given it to him for five. Kane's insight is going to be on you. What is D money doing? Why did he have to get here four hours early? He's not preparing. What's he doing? He knows everything about the Kane's already. What is he doing right now? Yeah. guys for the last two and a half hours, just stared completely straight into that camera waiting for ISO shots. Can you guys get a little sparkle to put on his teeth there so that when we turn the camera to him, we can get the sparkle on his teeth extra laminated? Can we relive and play this video here of Michael Irvin getting the siren going before Kane's game? It's one of my favorite. He's so proud of himself. We miss him today. He is sleeping Chris Crawsaple saw style on again a cruise and a drink package that's going from here to Key West, here to Bimini. It is the shortest possible cruise that there is on this size of a boat that exists. The Cody family loves them some cruises. They cannot get enough of cruises wherever it is that they go. They cannot get enough of drink packages. So we already had the video of him taking a nap. He took a nap on the cruise because he wanted to get ready before it was time to go swimming. And here he is. He's about to jump in the pool. This is unfair. What you guys are doing to him, he hates that photo. He claims it's not him, but it is clearly him so obviously him, it is, it's strange that he would be wearing LSU thong and an LSU tiger hat given that he's a, you know, he's a Miami guy. But yes, trying to hide in plain sight. Greg Cody will return next week in order to finish his catch phrase countdown. We will have back in my day. This hour though, down lebertar, is there back in my day? There is actually a minute, you guys, it's a Tuesday, Greg Cody. Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with back in my day. Okay, here it is, adultery, that is crazy for this one, this is the down lebertar show. We do have another Sui to get to in this hour, but before we do this, since we're talking about the Rams, you guys heard the static just gave you, okay, they're plus 500 to win the Super Bowl. Twenty times the team has been plus 500. None of them have won the Super Bowl because football doesn't technically work that. Yeah, no football team should ever be that low in terms of a market price. There's just too many variables. I was surprised, though, that there had been 20 in the history of all wagering that ended up with plus 500 as a number, but as a couple of Rams related things I wanted to get to, they trolled the Miami Heat the other day, right before signing Aaron Donald. I do enjoy when the social media teams are more clever than their coaches and more clever than their quarterbacks. I do enjoy this change from some of the people in the chargers are the best at this. Are we acknowledging that in the who who is the greatest of the social media teams in football or in sports of obviously having young people run the accounts and you see what the Rams did here with their tweet where they're saying of Aaron Donald and the announcement. Anybody know how to set up a YouTube live stream without it going public need to test for something because they were teasing the Miami Heat about the fact that they made the mistake of making it seem like LeBron was going to end up here. But when I tell you that Aaron Donald is now a Ram, I don't know what people expect from him after two years off, but I wanted to sort of commiserate here with Mike. I don't think this is a story that Zazzlo knows, but for me the name Aaron Donald has sort of a PTSD because at ESPN right at the start, I'm going to say of ESPN trying to figure out what these NFL teams have figured out on how to do social media. They sent a group of people to Miami on a budget Zazzlo to help me use our Twitter account correctly, a person came down here, Mike, please help me with some of the details because I don't remember them. But with my name, they sent this out as an example of how to send a tweet when I wanted to be able to fool around with Twitter and do things in my voice. And the tweet they sent out was a young and skinny Aaron Donald here with a picture Aaron Donald is a beast. They showed me this as an example of how to use social media, Mike and I am I misrepresenting this story in any way. No, that's about it. Are there any details that the audience would need to understand how it is that ESPN sent somebody down with a travel budget or something, multiple people, right? It wasn't just one person to show me how to tweet correctly. That's among the things that they that party was there to do, yeah, it was a party. It was a party. Not all social media people or, you know, luminaries from fishing shops and potential sponsors that you didn't give the time of day. Aaron Donald is a beast was the tweet. We're not making that up as we're not trying to be funny. I think Chris Cody did split his shorts at me. I think it was that meeting. Really? Remember that? Good times. I was walking to a meeting with high ups for ESPN and I fell and ripped my shorts and fell in front of them. It tripped, but they didn't notice that my shorts just completely ripped in the crotch or region. It fell, you tripped. So then I stumbled. Yeah. It's more of a stumble, but it was a bad stumble. And I had to sit at a lunch for about an hour with rip shorts, just not fearful that anyone would notice. Yeah. You got to hand it to them now. They nailed it. Aaron Donald is a beast. Yeah. Tweet holds up. I don't know how they had $20 million. This team, how, how, it was two roster moves ago. They were like, how do they have the money for this? And then they added miles Garrett. I don't know how they got the corners and then they added miles Garrett. And then they found another $20 million. Now I asked people in the NFL, how does this happen? And the response that I got, it's very easy to play with the money when it's a short-term deal. But it seems unfair. Yeah. I just feel like if we looked up a few days ago, you know, teams that are under the salary cap right now, the Rams were probably not minus 20. The Niners also have plenty of space. They're just teams that know how to manipulate this thing. And nobody in the general public can explain it. We have some breaking local news and it's tied to, to a tag of ILOA. So to a, just posted a photo on Instagram, you could see it here. It says for the A. So obviously, you see the dolphins in the background. It's got the emoji of the salute, but then you can see a comment from himself. We're so proud of you. You got this with a heart, which either means to was, you know, struggling himself, being in his just sort of in positive self-talk or, and this is the more likely scenario, he forgot to switch to the burner account. And he commented on his own post and just got caught red handed. Those are my own personal screenshots of the post. So that is 100% happening. We are not getting ball sacked. He really commented that on his own post. Another solution could be maybe someone in his family has admin credentials, who runs a social and they forgot to switch. God, I hope so. I like Jeremy's version better. The dolphins are paying to a $55 million this season. Is that more than my homes? Is that more than my homes is making for the chiefs this season? I think it might be more. Man, that is such insight into like what he just wants. He's like, I just want someone to comment and be like, hey, you got this. Like that makes me sad that that's the kind of like, you know, you think it would be like, hell yeah, you're my favorite quarterback, like a classic fan thing, but no, it's like emotional support with like a heart on it. Like, hey, it's okay. You got this. He's writing that to himself. Holy shit. This is dark. So there is at no point in Patrick Mahomes is a huge record breaking contract that he makes 55 million, but his cap hit does balloon up to crazy astronomical amounts, but he's going to restructure every year because the NFL salary cap is a lie. For example, right now, his base salary, Patrick Mahomes for this season is $1.3 million. But he's on the books for a $34 million cap hit. Next year, that cap hit balloons up to $90 million. That will not be the case. It will also be restructured. If he's putting that out there, that original post for the A, he must have just been told he's going to be the starter, right? When you assume that that means it seems like it. I don't know. I'm not getting in that guy's head. I don't want to get in there. I just think it's, you know, for a for the A, you made the team yesterday, which you were surprised by on Zazzleau Show 2.0. I was so ready to like just laugh at this and it makes me sad. That's what he's commenting on himself. Well, the whole thing with Tua is sad and everything that was built around him as the foundation leaves them in a position, as I mentioned yesterday, where their top five highest paid people, because this is a janitorial job that Hathley has taken. Their top five highest paid people aren't playing for the team next year. That can't be so. Like, my guess is, if you go, through the entirety of the league, like when you talk about what is a breach on a failure of engineering of architecture, my guess is that if you go throughout the league, you will not find that the two highest paid players on any team are players who are no longer playing for that team. Never mind, five. Like it's just a catastrophic breach on how you built something during the salary cap age. Across the decades. It's crazy. It's something that doesn't have a whole lot of precedent I've got to imagine. My guess is if I had to guess without looking it up, my guess is it's never happened before in the history of the league where your top five guys aren't playing for your highest paid five. Like you can't win like that. There's no circumstance in which that can be overcome. Might be I might have a comp, the New Orleans Saints. They were in cap. They were terrible. They were terrible last year. They know, I think they're so dealing with it because of all the restructurs and all that money caught up with them. That was lumbus, right? I saw some chart of like all the teams this season and dead money. They're dealing with the Saints. I believe our second, but it's like half of what the Saints might still be playing breeze Michael Thomas and Jimmy Graham. We have another. We have another Sui award to get to here. Chris, what is the category because you've got three of them to get to today. This is back in my day and there are three nominees here. You'd think that I'm like just taking the best of the best. No, I took all of them. We shouldn't have played. We shouldn't play any of these, but go ahead. We only got three back in my days from Greg Cody this year. And now the Sui nominees for best back in my day. Bowling. Bowling. I'm in a weekly bowling league. Why? Because I'm an every man, a lunchpale guy, the face of blue collar. And I love it. But all Bowlers nowadays except me have this in common. Everybody thinks they're a pro. They waltz into the bowling alley with rolling luggage full of four, five, six different bowling balls. I'm the only one in my entire league. No lie. With a single hand held bag containing one ball. The others have a ball for oily lane conditions, another ball for dry lanes, a ball for particular spare combos. Please, the ball racks get filled up and there's so many bags and rollers of surplus balls. The poor waitress trying to bring me another bucket of Miller light as a weave through a slalom of luggage. Ridiculum. Also fell out wearing his name and script on the back of your bowling shirt. Nobody knows who you are or cares. You're bowling a 138, getting your lane and I don't mean lane 11. Also Don Carter, quit dancing into my lane with your body English after the ball leaves your hands. Make bowling bowling again three fingers, a two ball limit and no name on your shirt because you're in a handicap league for a reason. Jack also bring back Chris Schenkel, even though he's dead. I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day. Reviews. Reviews. Everybody wants a review. Places where I do business, listen up. Unless you hear otherwise from me directly, assume my transaction was stalled to finally mundane, yet unremarkably satisfactory in its way. If it was top-tier great, I'ma tell you before I leave. If it was abysmal and let me angry, you'll hear from my lures, McGillicutty, Pettifogger and Shicer. Retailers, it's very simple. You had something I wanted. I bought it. You got paid. It's called Commerce. End of transaction. Quit hectoring me for a review. Cliffs notes. Cliffs notes. Things were so innocent when I was in school growing up that Cliffs notes felt like cheating. Cliffs notes was the academic equivalent of Rosie Ruiz running a marathon. 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But if there were, your laptop can tell you faster than your teacher. Now, so can Cliffs notes which sadly has adapted to the times and become more of an online entity that wants to do even more of your work for you. Band everything that gives you free information fast. Make learning laborious again. Bring back dictionaries atlas's road map. Sets of encyclopedias and a reliance on the fading memories of elders. I'm Greg Cody. And that's how it was. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Let's go. That's embarrassing. It's just an embarrassing collection of work. Is it breathing in that second one? Maybe nervous. All right. Put it on the pole, please, Jude. @lebittartshow. Can you be someone's great friend when you have broken their jaw on purpose?